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A certain acronym has a rising profile. VUCA stands for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Just because that acronym might fit the outside world, it shouldn’t describe your workplace. Imitating the right metaphors and adopting the right habits leads to the word-for-word opposite of VUCA: smooth, confident, plain, and clear.

When teams surrender to VUCA, their discipline, empathy, and project success rate are low. This session gives a preview of the ingredients to pursue high discipline, empathy, and project success rates. Surrendering to VUCA emphasizes the infinite activity of meetings and email. Solving VUCA emphasizes the finite productivity of work worth keystrokes (documentation).

Robert Snyder is the founder and president of Innovation Elegance, LLC. His thirty-year career spans roles such as developer, project management, change management, sales enablement, and the performing arts. His career path includes corporate roles, consulting roles, startups, PMP, and Agile certifications. He has performed in numerous vocal, dance, and theater ensembles.

Robert helps companies untether from the software-centric Agile/Hybrid stalemate to adopt Elegance, a methodology that is natively people-centric. Elegance converts your communication traffic jam into a communication symphony. Elegance converts your frustration factory into an elegant expectation factory. 

Robert earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MBA in Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Robert is publishing a series of books on innovation methodology.

• “Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace” (available now)
• “Innovation Portfolio: Five Verbs Shape Your Team’s Legacy” (available now)
• “Elegant Leadership: Distinguishing the Good, the Bad, and the False” (targeting 2026)